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Fiction Selection
The following contains two novel excerpts and two short stories completed during the years of 2011 to 2013. Rain in Paluma consists of a fictitious community based upon island life in Australia. Stroke deals with the relationship of father and son, both facing the consequences of Alzheimer’s …
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Fiction Selection
The following contains two novel excerpts and two short stories completed during the years of 2011 to 2013. Rain in Paluma consists of a fictitious community based upon island life in Australia. Stroke deals with the relationship of father and son, both facing the consequences of Alzheimer’s …
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Science Fiction Music
Ph.D.
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Truth in Fiction
… to literary tradition and genre classification, fiction has often been regarded as writing that lacks a foundation of truth. However, this does not necessarily mean that fiction contains no elements of truth. In this thesis, Timothy Baker argues that fiction contains traces of truth - truths that …
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Fiction Free Form
Fiction Free Form includes a short story, free verse poetry and formal poetry. Arrangement of the collection follows the title of the thesis: the short story is first, free verse is next, and formal verse is last. Themes throughout the collection vary and explore diverse topics such as …
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Fiction and Fictionalism
… same grounds, and I will thereby suggest that fictionalist theories in general are flawed in a systematic manner.
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The Dirt Road: A Collection of Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction
A collection of fiction and creative non-fiction works.
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Filtered Fiction, Tunnel Truth
… mainly autobiographical in nature, somewhat fictionalized (or revised) and using subjects that are most significant to the understanding of my world and self views, ancestry and family, education, environment, etc.{dollar}\..{dollar}; My goal, and reasons for the content and form selections, …
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Who Speaks Truth to Fiction? Scientific Authority and Social Difference in Speculative Fiction
The term "science fiction" has in itself a contradiction: if science is truth, and fiction is make-believe, how can the two come together? The authors, readers, and fans of science fiction have come together to create a set of informal rules for how to deal with this contradiction, allowing …
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The use of narrative devices in the fiction and non-fiction of Joan Didion
… to examine the use of narrative devices in the fiction and collected non-fiction of Joan Didion in order to evaluate her abilities as a novelist and as a New journalist. The works considered include the novels Run River, Play It As It Lays, and The Book of Common Prayer; the non-fiction works …
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Mountain Man : Fact and Fiction
… is to examine representative factual and fictional accounts of the mountain man, a pioneer to the Rockies in the early and mid-nineteenth century. Certain components are examined and weighed against each other in an attempt to ascertain the authentic image of the mountain man. Procedure. …
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Narrative ethics in postcolonial fiction
… within the structure of certain postcolonial fictions; 3) by investigating the representation of violence and physical oppression intrinsic to these fictions, and asking how the inscription of that violence affects their narrative structures; and, 4) by arguing that the representation of the …
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A thesis about design fiction
… currencies, and I encountered Design Fiction for the first time when assembling a methodology for that project. I was enticed by the rhetoric around Design Fiction and the aesthetic of works describing themselves as Design Fiction. However, as I researched the concept more thoroughly …
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The fiction of adverse possession
… that the doctrine of adverse possession is a fiction developed by the courts to protect the most important possession of the English landed class – their land. It has also been demonstrated that the squatter is not a trespasser, a land thief or possessor of wrong. This is significant when the …
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Hudson City Rain: Collected Fiction
Short story collection.
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Fiction for the Intermediate Grades
… the pale of this thesis, neither does juvenile fiction—good, bad, and indifferent read by students of the upper grades and high school, nor the tales intended for the primary pupils enter into the discussion. It treats simply of fiction for the intermediate grades. |These facts were obtained …
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The rhetoric of African fiction
<p>Criticism of West African fiction has been both recent and various. Moving from the socio-anthropological concerns, to the negritude orientation, to the argument for commitment, to the search for an African or Black aesthetic, these discussions have not considered in any detail the formal …
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The fiction of Erskine Caldwell
… next ten years he published all the remaining fiction that would ever merit serious critical consideration: <em>Journeyman</em> (1935), <em>Trouble in July</em> (1940), <em>Georgia Boy</em> (1943), <em>Tragic Ground</em> (1944), and the short story collections <em>Kneel to the Rising Sun</em> …
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Four Types of Picaresque Fiction
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